IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Team

The authors

Catherine Dobias-Lalou, Professeur émérite of the Université de Bourgogne, member of the French archaeological mission in Libya (Antiquity), studies Greek epigraphy, ancient Greek linguistics, Greek dialectology. Project manager for IGCyr and GVCyr and lead epigraphy researcher, she is in charge of the inscriptions' critical edition for the two corpora: she established lemma, Greek text and apparatus; she wrote the commentary and translated Greek text of inscriptions into French and English; she encoded inscriptions following the EpiDoc standard; she prepared the iconography. She did the same for IGCyr2-GVCyr2.

Alice Bencivenni, Professoressa associata at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, studies Greek epigraphy and Hellenistic institutions. Epigraphy researcher for IGCyr e GVCyr and in charge of the co-ordination with CRR-MM, Università di Bologna, she founded the digital Laboratory Hellas Unibo to curate drafting and editing stages for the publication. For the two corpora she contributed to the inscriptions' critical edition, in particular to the establishment of Greek text and commentary; she translated Greek text of inscriptions into Italian, checking also English translations; she checked digital EpiDoc encoding. She did the same for IGCyr2-GVCyr2, being in charge of the co-ordination with AlmaDL, Università di Bologna.

Hugues Berthelot, Maître de conférences at Université d’Angers, member of U.M.R. 8167 Orient et Méditerranée and of the French archaeological mission in Libya (Antiquity), studies Greek epigraphy, Greek Cyrene, Greek colonial world. Epigraphy researcher for IGCyr, he contributed to the inscriptions' critical editions, in particular to the establishment of Greek text and apparatus; he took part into digital EpiDoc encoding.

Simona Antolini, Professoressa associata of Roman history at Università di Macerata, studies municipal Latin epigraphy, rock-cut epigraphy, Greek and Latin epigraphy of Cyrenaica. Epigraphy researcher for IGCyr, she contributed to iconography.

Silvia M. Marengo, Professoressa ordinaria of Roman History at Università di Macerata, studies Greek and Latin epigraphy of Cyrenaica (she is author of a Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica) and Roman history of Marche. Epigraphy researcher for IGCyr, she contributed to iconography.

Emilio Rosamilia, Ricercatore at Università degli Studi di Perugia, member of the Italian archaeological mission at Cyrene - Università di Urbino, studies Greek history and epigraphy, especially of classical and hellenistic Cyrene. As an epigraphy researcher, he contributed to IGCyr2 on a much larger scale than for IGCyr through his published and unpublished research with critical edition, historical interpretation and iconography.

Joyce M. Reynolds †, Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, studied Greek and Latin epigraphy of Aphrodisias, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. For GVCyr she provided her epigraphic archives.

Charlotte Roueché, Emeritus Professor in Digital Hellenic Studies, King's College, London, studies prosopography of the Byzantine world and Byzantine and Arabic medicine and edits on-line epigraphic corpora and gazetteers. Head of the project Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica and coordinator of the portal Inscriptions of Libya, she studied for GVCyr the epigraphic archives of J.M. Reynolds and shared the iconographic and topographic resources of the London team.

InsLib

Principal researchers

IGCyr2 | GVCyr2

Scientific Committee

  • Catherine Dobias-Lalou (Université de Dijon and French archaeological mission in Libya): Project manager, Lead epigraphy researcher
  • Hugues Berthelot (Université d’Angers): Epigraphy researcher
  • Lucia Criscuolo (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna): Project manager
  • Alice Bencivenni (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna): Epigraphy researcher, Co-ordination with CRR-MM, Co-ordination with AlmaDL
  • Silvia Maria Marengo (Università di Macerata): Epigraphy researcher
  • Gianfranco Paci (Università di Macerata): Epigraphy researcher
  • Simona Antolini (Università di Macerata): Epigraphy researcher
  • Charlotte Roueché (King's College London): Co-ordination with InsLib
  • Emilio Rosamilia (Università degli Studi di Perugia): Epigraphy researcher

Project team

  • Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (Universität Heidelberg): Epidoc trainer
  • Pietro Maria Liuzzo (Bibliotheca Hertziana): XML analyst, EpiDoc trainer, Technical advisor
  • Gabriel Bodard (King's College London): EpiDoc co-ordination, EFES
  • Muna Abdelhamed (Madani Schools Federation, Leicester): Arabic Translations
  • Irene Vagionakis (Pagina GmbH Publikationstechnologien): XML analyst, EpiDoc trainer, technical advisor, design of EFES interface
  • Marta Fogagnolo (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna): EpiDoc trainer

Prosopographia Cyrenaica

  • André Laronde † (Université de Paris-Sorbonne et Mission Archéologique Française en Libye): Lead epigraphy researcher
  • François Chevrollier (Musée du Louvre-Abu Dhabi): Epigraphy researcher

Participating institutions

  • Sorbonne-Université Lettres, Centre de recherche sur la Libye antique
  • Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà and AlmaDL, Alma Digital Library, Area Patrimonio Culturale
  • Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Studi umanistici
  • King's College London, Centre for Hellenic Studies et Department of Digital Humanities

Website developed and maintained by

  • Irene Vagionakis (Pagina GmbH Publikationstechnologien)

Acknowledgements

We received moral support and documental resources from the following institutions:

  • Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, Shahat, Susa, Tolmeita, Tokra, Benghasi (Libya)
  • Missione Archeologica a Cirene, Università di Urbino (†M. Luni, O. Mei, E. Rosamilia)
  • Missione archeologica dell'Università di Chieti (O. Menozzi, S. Struffolino)
  • Università degli Studi di Pisa, Archivio Breccia
  • Polish archaeological mission at Ptolemais (P. Jaworski, A. Łajtar)
  • American archaeological mission at Cyrene (D. White †, S. Kane, J. Uhlenbrock)
  • Society for Libyan Studies, now British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (Ph. Kenrick, V. Leitch)
  • Inscriptiones Graecae, Nachlass Peek, Berlin (Kl. Hallof)
  • Archives François Chamoux, Paris
  • Archives André Laronde, Paris
  • Centre de recherche sur la Libye Antique (Fr. Lefèvre, V. Michel, Fr. Chevrollier, M. Belzic)
  • Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités grecques et romaines
  • British Museum, London

Special thanks to the students and PhD students who participated in the Hellas Unibo digital laboratory (2013-2016).